Welcome to the website of IEEE Technical Committee on Human Centric Communications (HCCTC).

Scope of Technical Activities

   The goal of the HCCTC is to provide a platform for its members, and the human centric networking and communications research, development, and standardization community at large, to interact and exchange technical ideas, to identify major R&D challenges, and to collaborate and investigate solutions in the development of human centric and naturalized communications technologies. The technical issues addressed by the committee include all aspects of human centric and naturalized networking and communications related research issues (e.g., seamless human centric communications, self-aware and self-configurable human centric networks, cognitive theory for human centric computing and communications, human centric computing and communications design theories, flexible and intuitive communications approaches, convergent networking architecture, protocol, and interfaces for intuitive communications, human centric content access and distribution, human centric network security and privacy issues, social, ethical, educational and economical issues in HCC, etc.), implementation technologies, industry standardization activities, and economic considerations.

Rationale for HCCTC

  . Human centric networking and communications is an emerging technical area

   Flexible and intuitive technology approaches to support naturalized communications that focus on human convenience, connectivity, and environmental friendliness are attracting more and more interests from both the academia and the industry in recent years.

  . Many topics in HCC are not covered by any existing ComSoc TC

   Because of recent developments in technology and applications and the inter-discliplinary aspects of HCC, the opportunity to cohesively address research questions in pervasive communications, context-awareness, social networks, and seamless user interfaces is now emerging.

How to Participate

To become a member of the HCCTC, see the Membership link.  To participate in the HCCTC email list, see the information on the HCC mail list by following the Membership link.